Press Release on The Human Right to Water and Sanitation
Posted on Thursday, July 29th, 2010
An Interview with Navdanya Coordinator Anand Kumar.
Posted on Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
An Interview with Navdanya Coordinator Anand Kumar.
Conducted by Carrie Stiles, Conflict Resolution Department, Portland State University.
March 2010
If you are curious to know more about the daily activities of Navdanya’s network this interview may provide insight into our grassroots mobilization. Anand Kumar has dedicated nine years in service to Navdanya farmers. The kind and soft-spoken man from Uttaranchal is the coordinator for the Dehradun region and the farm manager at Navdanya’s biodiverse agro ecological experimental learning center, also known as Bija (seed) Vidyapeeth (school). His job duties include crop planning, mapping, labeling, course arrangement, stock inventory, seed organization and categorization, register maintenance and working in the soil lab. Anand avidly works with 80 Certified Organic Farmers and 5,000 total farmers.
The State of the World on the Eve of the G-20 Summit in Toronto
Posted on Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Below is an excerpt from the Democracy Now! coverage of the G-8/G-20 Summit in Toronto from democracynow.org:
Amy Goodman: As world leaders gathered in Toronto for the G-20 summit last week, leading activists from around the world joined thousands in Toronto’s Massey Hall to oppose the G-20 agenda. Among those who spoke was Maude Barlow. She heads the Council of Canadians—Canada’s largest public advocacy organization. She’s founder of the Blue Planet Project. This is a part of what she had to say:
Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth
Posted on Sunday, May 16th, 2010
Preamble
We, the peoples and nations of Earth:
considering that we are all part of Mother Earth, an indivisible, living community of interrelated and interdependent beings with a common destiny;
gratefully acknowledging that Mother Earth is the source of life, nourishment and learning and provides everything we need to live well;
recognizing that the capitalist system and all forms of depredation, exploitation, abuse and contamination have caused great destruction, degradation and disruption of Mother Earth, putting life as we know it today at risk through phenomena such as climate change;
convinced that in an interdependent living community it is not possible to recognize the rights of only human beings without causing an imbalance within Mother Earth;
affirming that to guarantee human rights it is necessary to recognize and defend the rights of Mother Earth and all beings in her and that there are existing cultures, practices and laws that do so;
Seed Sovereignty Course
Posted on Thursday, April 15th, 2010
Bija Vidyapeeth
24 – 26 Feb 2010
By Micah Stanek
Navdanya’s Bija Vidyapeeth held its Seed Sovereignty workshop on the biodiversity conservation farm outside Dehradun February 24–26. Quickly following Navdanya’s International Conference on Two Decades of the GMO-Free Movement in New Delhi, the programme zeroed in on seeds and biodiversity as the answer to the spreading devastation of industrial agriculture, GMOs, and seed monopolies. Sixty farmers, seed bank coordinators, physicians, scholars, and documentary filmmakers from all over the world attended—exchanging their stories, information, inspiration, and ideas for the future of the seed sovereignty movement.
International Conference on Two Decades of the GMO Free Movement
Posted on Thursday, April 15th, 2010
Celebrating Success, Securing the Future
Organized by Navdanya/Research Foundation for Science Technology and Ecology (RFSTE) jointly with: International Commission for the Future of Food, ARSIA Region of Tuscany (Italy), Centre for Food Safety (USA), Save our Seeds (Germany), Diverse Women for Diversity, Initiative for Health, Equity and Society.
Interview with Vasavi Kiro, Save the Forest Trust.
Posted on Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
Prepared by Carrie E.T. Stiles, Conflict Resolution Dept. Portland State University.
The voices of indigenous people resonate with a vast reservoir of knowledge for how to live sustainably with the earth. Listening to these voices is necessary to restore ecological balance and irrigate a desolate democratic landscape.
Defending our Collective and Indivisible Freedom and Peace
Posted on Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
The Imperative for organizing the Independent Peoples Tribunal on Land Acquisition, Resource Grab and Operation Green Hunt
Dr Vandana Shiva
A broad coalition of organisations, including Navdanya , are organizing a public trial of the militarized resource grab in the tribal regions which is threatening not just the tribal’s, but the constitutional framework and democratic structures of our society.
Interpreting the colour green
Posted on Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
By Dr. Vandana Shiva
[Originally posted at The Asian Age]
Photo by Joe Athialy
March 10 : Ecologists like me are called “greens”. We work to protect the green mantle of the earth — forests and biodiversity, soil and water. Nature’s green capital is the real capital that supports all life, and in the final analysis all livelihoods and the entire economy. However, the colour green has been much abused and used for anti-green, anti-nature, anti-people programmes.
Public Hearings Tackle Monopolies in US Agriculture Industry
Posted on Friday, March 26th, 2010
On Friday, March 12, the US Departments of Justice (DOJ) and Agriculture (USDA) convened the first of five public hearings on the monopolization and strangulation of competition in the US agriculture industry. The hearings were announced in January soon after the opening of a federal antitrust investigation of agribusiness giant Monsanto. Attorneys general from seven states have since joined the investigation.